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March 27 It's not perfect but still another step in advance I thinkHello,
This blog experienced several delays in recent time. I hope you can forgive me it.
Reason behind it was that I was preparing heavily to a new job (1) and migrating all this online activity to another host.
As I wrote in title. It's not perfect now but I think still it's another step in my online activities.
First of all I'd like to introduce some first draft of my personal signature site at URL = http://dbiesiada.com
Secondly I'd lik to migrate this blog alike to http://blogs.msdn.com and you can find it by the name of "Only human | Devoted to technology v2.0"
I hope you'll visit there at least once just to update your RSS feeds.
I'd like to encourage you to comment there heavily and if not then at least rate each post to let me know if I go in good direction.
I'll not split my online activities into two tracks. First non-censored spontanous blog at msdn and my own dot com with carefully picked up articles with nice value (taken from blog) and other articles, tech-tutorials and presentations I can publish publicitly.
I hope you can enjoy it.
Thanks for all these about 3000 clicks. Take care. March 20 Visual Studio Team System - training VPCSorry for delay in posting. Preparing for a new role and starting up a new hosting project for my online activities is taking so much time that I have to review my current time management approach again :)
Anyway I just found that since today you can download a nice VPC image with Visual Studio Team System installation + training scripts from the very beginning to... see yourself:
If you haven't yet decided if VSS is enough and what SCM tool you really need simply TRY! February 26 ZIP support for .NetHello,
Some time ago I complained that .NET 3.0 ZipArchive class implementation is just so imperfect that it cannot be used with regular zip files.
That's true. It's designed to support zip based document files like XPS or Office documents. It has to cover special structure inside.
With that understanding it can be even usable but if you're looking for real 100% zip file compression support for .NET you can go there:
and check the component. It's free for non-commercial use so you can evaluate it freely :) Sun supports linux - another direct hit on Redhat business?Wow, I just read that Sun's going to support Linux installations on similar way as Oracle declared himself on Red Hat distributions...
I see that the pie is smaller and smaller for Redhat and maybe it's a good moment to start looking for new business fundamentals than support only.
Interesting, that Redhat doesn't recognize it as competitive.
source [Polish Computerworld (paper) issue 5/751] February 23 Evil Evil Evil games *g* :) of course jokingReading previous article I made a follow up to some references like:
funny I grew up also with pen&paper role-playing games. I think this hobby has been one of major influences of present me.
Nevertheless I'd never agree to an psychodelic influence of rpgs as the only one indicator that matters. History of computer role-playing gameswow.. I just found another nutshell :)
Just hard to avoid such a lecture:
lovely Security side of AppleI just checked Polish website of Computerworld. I found there an info about security patch for Mac OS 10.3.9. Coverage of 36 security holes include also leaks in graphical files processing.
It reminds me the beginning of previous year where MS published KB hotfixes for jpg proccessing. Funny.. so it's not only Microsoft who was vulnerable for this technique. Word 2007 for bloggersAnyway.. I just wanted to say that last two posts have been sent from Word 2007. See it yourself on below picture. Web 2.0 commentsI just read one interesting article in local (Polish) Computerworld (Issue 5/751) about Web 2.0. My own comment on that is: it might be true. If so learning from mistakes a person who is smart enough should observe dynamically how and when to earn on the stock of most dynamic Web 2.0 companies and know when to quit before their stocks starts to fall down J Second thing I noticed is that this time Web 2.0 might be too big for small players and big companies like Google, Microsoft and other which might have interest in Web 2.0 can find funds and strength to be successful. My own comment on that is: I believe that from the lessons of current Web and potential of the next gen both groups can benefit easily. I believe that it's just a signal of interesting times we live all the time J I mean, history shows up that Netscape almost doesn't exist in current technological world. Position I believe Netscape should have actually holds Google. Microsoft is used to fight with dangers to its market all times. You name the company and year where some initiatives were strategic. Small companies every year show up their sharp teeth. Honestly Google started to be a big player from a garage company in recent times. It's a proof to me that small companies can all the time be global players – good idea and time for that is only critical. In that article I read about two ideas which I personally really like. First comes from Buzz Logic company which wants to make a blog tracking system which will help to manage real influence between bloggers and their influence on the market through their readers (per category, vertical, area and whatever distinction you want). Second solution from the article is about hardware. Concept I suppose old as old are cyberpunk movies and novels – electronic paper. Some plastic alike soft surface with electronic stuff on it (like browser) and your favorite newspaper let's say in water-proof e-paper which you could read in your bathtub also J Home of the future is closer and closer to us, prepare your wallets J February 18 Adobe Acrobat killing softwareWow.. I just found a freebie software with a functionality similar to full Adobe Acrobat (pdf export and virtual printer to save print into a pdf document).
If you like PDFs and you just suffer of nice software to generate it (beside for example Office 2007 plug-in which saves documents directly into PDF or XPS also) you can go there: http://www.primopdf.com/ and check it yourself II7 resources - recent articles worth checkingIf you're interested in the latest IIS (7) on Windows Vista - below two articles can be really usefull to check:
February 13 3GSM World CongressIs anybody of you readers attending this: http://3gsmworldcongress.com/index.asp?
I'm just curious if there was any crucial next gen Windows Mobile (Crossbow) platform presentation? I've heard some rumours but I'm not sure :> Came back from SeattleI just came back home from Seattle and Techready 4 conference held there.
It was great and trully valuable event.
Short summary will be later but I suppose I'll just focus on the trends and real content while I organize it. February 06 Just short comment on last uploaded picturesLast picture is of course about my newest t-shirt :) not much with Seattle.
But it's cool, isn't it? :D Connected business application based on OfficeSome time ago I wondered why for Infopath Forms Server and Excel Forms Server is for Sharepoint.
Why customer would need additional CAL extending standard CAL for these functionalities.
Now I've seen the demo where I could only respond WOW.
Imagine that you have a sharepoint site where there is some data and chart from embedded Excelspread.
You make some query in that sharepoint site, change some basic data and what's next.
Next is another role - a business manager who just opened a server stored excel file document, changed some basic data and chart (also changing graphical interpretation of it) and saved.
If you go back to the user who just looks at the sharepoint site you can see that all changes in that document are automatically reflected in all excel forms included there so that data changes and chart visualization is automatically updated.
Later on we can see some another forms based application that pops up a word document for you with some predefined template and fields to fill up. They can be connected with that excel definition also where that business manager can design some complex calculation in cells and where it's coded that cell C1 is input and D15 is output for that document.
here we go.. you have one field where you input some number and in another field in word document you get the result from stored calculation model in excel spreadsheet.
Do you get the idea? Lets imagine situation that our beloved business manager wants to redesign the calculation just keeping the input and output cells positions and without any change all word documents that go out with that forms connection have it automatically updated also.
That's where Excel/Infopath Forms potential lays. I was impressed. After going back Poland I wanna make some more tests and maybe a demo myself to be more practical in this tech-babbling Security context of your favourite "query" engineCan you tell me how many security critical patches Oracle released lately? I'm lost counting generally...
How many security holes have been found in SQL Server 2005 up to date? I can tell you -> none. Techready 4 kicked off!So it's started. About 7000 people in Washington State Convention center.
Steve's made nice keynote and of course showed American spirit adding several "Superbowl" alike metaphores to the message :)
It was really fun to watch him and listen live :> totally new experience comparing to some limited in media feeling broadcast streams.
But anyway point most important at company.. to be People Ready has been again highlighted very well.
okay. next entry is again about Seattle (it's for my friends not to say that I'm only speaking corpo-talks) :) February 04 A Few more pictures from SeattleIt might be boring but really, I'm impressed by the city :) February 03 Guy Kawasaki's Art of the EvangelismYesterday I was attending a training about evangelism wher Guy Kawasaki provided a keynote.
Marvelous speech and it was really amazing to see so much complete person. |
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